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Volume 20, Number 15 |
10 April 2015 |
The Food and Drug Administration has "accepted for filing" the New Drug Application (NDA) for lifitegrast (Shire, Lexington, Mass.), as well as granting a Priority Review designation for accelerated review, Shire officials said in a press release.
The FDA is expected to provide a decision on Oct. 25, 2015, based on the Prescription Drug User Fee Act V action date, the release said.
"The symptoms of dry eye are one of the most common complaints from patients, yet there remains a tremendous unmet need," Stephen C. Pflugfelder, MD, professor of ophthalmology at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, said in the release. "It's encouraging to see Shire moving the program for lifitegrast forward." According to the release from Shire, lifitegrast is an investigational treatment for dry eye disease in adults and "if approved, has the potential to be the first treatment indicated to address both signs and symptoms of the disease." The filing follows 4 clinical trials with more than 1,800 patients, with a phase 2 study, 2 phase 3 efficacy and safety studies, and 1 long-term phase 3 safety study.
A long-term study in more than 4,500 U.S. children has identified a single test that can predict which kids will become nearsighted by the eighth grade: their current refractive error. The Ohio State University researchers also dispelled the notion that near work can cause myopia, the university said in a news release.
The Collaborative Longitudinal Evaluation of Ethnicity and Refractive Error (CLEERE) study involved 4,512 children between first and eighth grades. When they were between the ages of 6 and 11 years, children with normal vision were evaluated at their current grade level and during an additional 2 years. Over the course of the study, 414 kids became nearsighted between second and eighth grades. Among the 8 expected risk factors, "the refractive error at baseline was the best predictor in children at a young age that they would develop myopia by their teen years," the university said.
These results could help set a standard for eye exam recommendations for school-aged children and could be used to identify children who would be good candidates for testing of experimental therapies designed to prevent myopia, said Karla Zadnik, professor and dean of the College of Optometry at the university.
People who apply eyeliner on the inner eyelid run the risk of contaminating the eye and causing vision trouble, according to research by a scientist at the University of Waterloo, Canada. This is the first study to prove that particles from pencil eyeliner move into the eye, the university said in a news release.
Researchers used video recordings to observe and compare the amount of eyeliner particles that migrated into the tear film after applying makeup in different styles. Makeup migration "happened quicker and was greater" when eyeliner was applied on the inner lid margin, said Alison Ng, OD. Each participant wore glitter eyeliner outside the lash line, and then on the inner lid area closer to the eye, or along the waterline. Between 15-30% more particles moved into the tear film layer within 5 minutes when eyeliner was applied to the inside of the lash line. However, after about 2 hours there was a negligible amount of residual liner.
The study did not evaluate the bacterial aspects of makeup contamination, the university said
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